Clarence Worley
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Clarence Worley is the comic book–loving, Elvis-obsessed protagonist of the crime film "True Romance," who impulsively marries a call girl and becomes entangled in a violent, cross-country escapade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clarence Worley canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859726 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clarence Worley Context triple: [True Romance, mainCharacter, Clarence Worley]
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A.
Clarence Rowland
Clarence Rowland was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to the 1917 World Series championship.
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B.
Clarence Johnson
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aeronautical engineer best known for leading Lockheed's Skunk Works and creating advanced aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and F-104 Starfighter.
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C.
Clarence Edward Smith
Clarence Edward Smith, better known as Clarence 13X or Allah, was the founder of the Five-Percent Nation and a prominent figure in mid-20th-century African American religious and cultural movements.
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D.
Clarence Anglin
Clarence Anglin was one of the three inmates who carried out the famous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison, inspiring books and films about the still-unsolved case.
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E.
Louis Orr
Louis Orr is an American former professional basketball player and college coach known for his time with the New York Knicks and as head coach at Seton Hall University.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clarence Worley Target entity description: Clarence Worley is the comic book–loving, Elvis-obsessed protagonist of the crime film "True Romance," who impulsively marries a call girl and becomes entangled in a violent, cross-country escapade.
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A.
Clarence Rowland
Clarence Rowland was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to the 1917 World Series championship.
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B.
Clarence Johnson
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was a pioneering American aeronautical engineer best known for leading Lockheed's Skunk Works and creating advanced aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and F-104 Starfighter.
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C.
Clarence Edward Smith
Clarence Edward Smith, better known as Clarence 13X or Allah, was the founder of the Five-Percent Nation and a prominent figure in mid-20th-century African American religious and cultural movements.
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D.
Clarence Anglin
Clarence Anglin was one of the three inmates who carried out the famous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison, inspiring books and films about the still-unsolved case.
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E.
Louis Orr
Louis Orr is an American former professional basketball player and college coach known for his time with the New York Knicks and as head coach at Seton Hall University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Clarence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | True Romance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alabama Whitman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clifford Worley NERFINISHED ⓘ Dick Ritchie NERFINISHED ⓘ Drexl Spivey NERFINISHED ⓘ Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincenzo Coccotti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
Elvis Presley fan
ⓘ
comic book enthusiast ⓘ impulsive ⓘ romantic ⓘ violent when threatened ⓘ |
| createdBy | Quentin Tarantino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorOfWorkAppearedIn | Tony Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyMember | Clifford Worley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| favoriteMusicArtist | Elvis Presley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | True Romance universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | True Romance (1993 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
crime film
ⓘ
romantic thriller ⓘ |
| hasDialogueWith | imaginary Elvis Presley figure ⓘ |
| hobby |
reading comic books
ⓘ
watching kung fu movies ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Quentin Tarantino’s pop-culture obsessions ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Alabama Whitman ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | antihero ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
fantasy versus reality
ⓘ
love against violent odds ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | comic book store clerk ⓘ |
| plotInvolvement |
attempts to sell cocaine in Hollywood
ⓘ
kills Drexl Spivey ⓘ steals cocaine from Drexl Spivey ⓘ survives a hotel shootout in some versions ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Christian Slater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | True Romance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticRelationship | Alabama Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWorkAppearedIn | Quentin Tarantino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities |
Detroit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Alabama Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weaponUsed | handgun ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1993 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Clarence Worley Description of subject: Clarence Worley is the comic book–loving, Elvis-obsessed protagonist of the crime film "True Romance," who impulsively marries a call girl and becomes entangled in a violent, cross-country escapade.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.